Disease events — Gippsland 2017
The following tables show disease events in the Gippsland region of Victoria between 1 May 2017 and 30 August 2017.
Note: These figures exclude cases where no definitive diagnosis was made.
Figure 1 displays disease events per animal species in the Gippsland region.
The map of Victoria shows that most investigations were in cattle and were located in the shires of Cardinia, Baw Baw, South Gippsland and Wellington. Investigations in poultry were the next most common and these were mostly located on the Mornington Peninsula.
Diagnosed diseases in cattle
| Disease | Number of animals diagnosed |
|---|---|
Salmonellosis (general) | 31 |
Internal parasites – helminths | 17 |
Internal parasites – protozoa | 14 |
Rotavirus | 7 |
Bovine viral diarrhoea/pestivirus (not type 2) | 6 |
Yersiniosis | 4 |
Clostridium(not Blackleg/Tetanus/Botulism | 4 |
Paratuberculosis (Johnes disease) | 4 |
E.coli (not verocytotoxigenic) | 3 |
E.coli (verocytotoxigenic) | 1 |
Listeriosis | 2 |
Adenovirus | 1 |
Bovine malignant tumour (eye, more than 2cm) | 1 |
Bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) | 1 |
Congenital malformation | 1 |
External parasites (not notifiable) | 1 |
Hypocalcaemia | 1 |
Malignant catarrhal fever (not wildebeest assoc.) | 1 |
Mannheimia haemolytica | 1 |
Nutritional deficiency – selenium/vitamin E | 1 |
Parainfluenza-3 (PI3) | 1 |
Polioencephalomalacia | 1 |
Toxicity – other | 1 |
Vascular accident | 1 |
Diagnosed diseases in chickens
| Disease | Number of animals diagnosed |
|---|---|
Infectious laryngotracheitis | 23 |
E.coli (verocytotoxigenic) | 1 |
Diagnosed diseases in deer
| Disease | Number of animals diagnosed |
|---|---|
Yersiniosis | 1 |
Diagnosed diseases in goats
| Disease | Number of animals diagnosed |
|---|---|
Internal parasites – helminths | 1 |
Clostridium (not Blackleg/Tetanus/Botulism) | 1 |
Diagnosed diseases in pigeons
| Disease | Number of animals diagnosed |
|---|---|
Rotavirus | 3 |
Diagnosed diseases in pigs
| Disease | Number of animals diagnosed |
|---|---|
Salmonellosis (general) | 1 |
Diagnosed diseases in sheep
| Disease | Number of animals diagnosed |
|---|---|
Internal parasites – helminths | 1 |
Yersiniosis | 1 |
Ovine footrot | 1 |
Ovine lice | 1 |
See the disease investigations undertaken between 1 May 2017 and 31 August 2017 in other regions: